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Topic: IT (Read 71143 times)
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Cyrrex
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Yeah they were. They were basically the condensed movie version of the ST kids. The entire first movie had much of the same 80s vibes that makes ST so popular.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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schild
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They were flat out better in IT
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MediumHigh
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My problem with this version of IT is that it comes from the JJ Abrams school of movie making. High production values, competently directly, looks and sounds ok. Their good movies by every technical benchmark but they don't invoke anything. I never come away from a JJ Abrams movie feeling like I saw something special. Which is why Abrams is consistently hired to make remakes, he can "modernize" a franchise and make it accessible to a new audience. But in doing so you often lose what made the original franchise memorable.
This new IT hits all the right technical beats but isn't too interested in being memorable.
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schild
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My problem with this version of IT is that it comes from the JJ Abrams school of movie making. High production values, competently directly, looks and sounds ok. Their good movies by every technical benchmark but they don't invoke anything. I never come away from a JJ Abrams movie feeling like I saw something special. Which is why Abrams is consistently hired to make remakes, he can "modernize" a franchise and make it accessible to a new audience. But in doing so you often lose what made the original franchise memorable.
This new IT hits all the right technical beats but isn't too interested in being memorable.
what the fuck are you talking about they literally could not have hired someone better from the pool of living cinematographers than they did with Chung-hoon Chung Nothing about IT came across as a JJ Abrams thing, but even then, if you're not gonna call Cloverfield - regardless of whether you liked it or not - viscerally memorable I don't know what to tell you. |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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This new IT hits all the right technical beats but isn't too interested in being memorable.
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TheWalrus
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HA! Not memorable. Holy shit.
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vanilla folders - MediumHigh
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Soulflame
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This new IT hits all the right technical beats but isn't too interested in being memorable.
I disagree with what you said. I see what you did there.  |
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Wasted
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Part 2 is a solid Meh from me. There was a some good elements combined with a lack of subtlety that was on the nose in a few spots.
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Selby
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Saw this last night. I enjoyed the humor and wisecracks more than I thought I would. Just enough to break the tension without being distracting (and it was built on their interactions as kids). I liked it, doesn’t sound like most people did though. Much better than the second part of the TV movie...
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